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Top Ten and Desert Island flicks...
Hmm, all the movie talk lately got me thinking about my own top ten list of flicks. Of course the trouble with top ten "lists" is that they constantly change. But most of us I guess are happy to play the "desert island" game, i.e. what three movies would you grab as you ran out the door to exile on a desert island? You have 2 seconds to make up your mind...
A top ten list is bloody hard, but my desert island three-some was relatively easy:
Blow Up - my all time favourite film: Michaelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece look at London in the swinging 60s. Totally, utterly engrossing. First saw this as a kid and and am constantly blown away by this every time I see it (which is every few months).
Jour de Fete - my favourite of all the brilliant Jacques Tati movies. This has charm and wit and is as engaging a movie as any I've seen. Tati captures the essence of rural France so well. I love it to bits. And like Blow Up, withstands repeated viewing. Again, I've seen this dozens of times, and it stands up well with each viewing.
The Matrix - whilst I couldn't say this was the best sci-fi movie ever made, it's one of the most original and does stand up to repeated viewing, hence its inclusion. And I genuinely do love it. And I watch it often.
The other seven films on my current top ten list then would be:
Four Weddings and a Funeral - hugely funny. Classic comedy.
Alien - Brilliant sci-fi. A stand-out amongst the genre.
Blade Runner - (The Director's Cut). More Ridley Scott. Stunning.
Casablanca - Classic film on so many levels.
Blues Brothers - Car chase meets R&B meets Princess Leia !!!
Monty Python & The Holy Grail - The best thing the MP crew did.
Ground Zero - Little-known Aussie film. Nuclear thriller. Grabs me every time.
The sad part is of course the films you leave off the list. But ask me again in a month's time, and that list will have changed a bit. Although it takes a lot to get on my desert island list - that may not change for quite some time.
OK that's me done. Who else has got what??
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